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4th HALF YEARLY MONITORING REPORT OF CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION AND STUDIES (CDECS) ON MDM FOR THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN FOR THE PERIOD OF 1st April, 2012 to 30 th September, 2012 DISTRICTS COVERED 1. SriGanganagar 2. Alwar CDECS/MI/4HLY Report/SGN&Alwar Page1 FOREWORD MDM being one of the flagship programmes taken up by Government of India with support from State Governments has addressed this fundamental problem by implementing school Mid day Meal program that provides children with at least one nutritionally adequate meal a day. Nutrition support to primary education is considered as a means to achieve the objective of providing free and compulsory universal primary education of satisfactory quality to all the children below the age of 14 years by giving a boost to Universalization of Elementary Education through increased enrollment, improved school attendance and retention and promoting nutritional status of elementary school children simultaneously. School meal programme also provides parents with a strong incentive to send children to school, thereby encouraging enrollment and reducing absenteeism and drop-out rates. School meal programme support health, nutrition, and education goals and consequently, have a multi-pronged impact on a nation’s overall social and economic development. Mid-day Meal is a popular National Flagship educational programme of our country, with the provision of cooked lunch free of cost to school-children on all school days. During the last 6 to 7 years, various kinds of activities have been conducted under this programme through out the country and every year the progress and problems relating to implementation of this programme have been analyzed and reviewed at National level allocated with some grants and manpower to conduct the programme related activities with more vigour and enthusiasm. But what have been achieved out of those elaborate, exhaustive programme activities? It is required to examine the progress of this programme. The Government of India, (its Ministry of Human Resource Development) has, therefore, intended to gather data on progress of the programme through a detailed monitoring of some sample districts during the period from 1.04.2012 to 30.09.2012 (six months). The monitoring Team of our organization has been set up under the leadership of Dr. Upendra K. Singh who has prepared this report after collating the relevant data obtained through their monitoring visits to sample schools of 02 Districts (SriGanganagar & Alwar). I would appreciate the genuine efforts of Dr. Singh and his team who could prepare the report within the time assigned by the Government of India. I hope the findings of the report would be helpful to the Government of India and the MDM department, Government of Rajasthan and District Project Office team to understand the grassroots level achievements and present system of operation of the programme and accordingly, take measures to improve the overall functioning of the programme to achieve the major goals. Our team also tried to have supportive role in the process, especially of the district officials so that they feel motivated and empowered towards the MDM/SSA in the district with the positive and critical inputs from the MI. Chairman, CDECS, Rajasthan 25 September, 2012 CDECS/MI/4HLY Report/SGN&Alwar Page2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The 4th Half Yearly Monitoring report has been prepared for the State of Rajasthan revealing the progress of the Mid Day Meal (MDM) in Rajasthan from 1.04.2012 to 30.09.2012 . The facts giving details of implementation of the MDM have been examined and analyzed, especially pertaining to the progress made by the Districts of Ganganagar & Alwar. The empirical data have been obtained from the sample respondents like teachers, community leaders, parents, students, etc. This report is an outcome of the kind cooperation of the following persons to whom we acknowledge our gratefulness. 1. Ms. Aparna Arora, IAS, Secretary, Panchayati Raj Department, GOR 2. Mr. L.C. Auswal, RAS, Commissioner, Mid Day Meal department, GOR 3. Mr. Devkinandan Sharma, Deputy Commissioner, MDM, GOR We also express our thanks to all our sample respondents, who have extended their cooperation to us without any hesitation during monitoring work. Our Special thanks to Ms. Anshu Vaishya, IAS, Secretary, Department of Education & Literacy, Ministry of HRD, GOI and Mr. Amarjeet Singh, IAS, Joint Secretary, MDM for their deep concern for the task of MI and also their support in order to complete the monitoring in the districts of the State of Rajasthan. We express our deep sense of gratitude to Mr.Gaya Prashad, Director, MDM, for time to time guidance in undertaking the monitoring activities in Rajasthan State. We owe our gratitude to officials of MDM Department who were kind enough to share various provisions and processes about the MDM time to time. We express our deep sense of gratitude to Mr. Mridula Sarkar & Mr. Bhupendra Singh, Senior Consultant (Monitoring) MDM, Technical Support Group (TSG), EDCIL, New Delhi who have continuously supported us at every stage of this monitoring work. Our thanks are also due to the whole team of CDECS for their patience and hard work which really helped in bringing out this report. We hope that the findings of this report will be useful to various people concerned with funding, planning, implementation and research on MDM in the State of Rajasthan. Dr. Upendra K. Singh Nodal Officer, CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION AND STUDIES (CDECS) 25 September, 2012 Jaipur, Rajasthan CDECS/MI/4HLY Report/SGN&Alwar Page3 Contents S. Particulars Page Number No. 1. Foreword 2 2. Acknowledgement 3 3. General Information 5-7 4. Consolidated Report for the districts of 8-11 SriGanganagar & Alwar in the State of Rajasthan for the period - 1st APRIL, 2012 TO 30 th SEPTEMBER, 2012 5. 4th Half Yearly Monitoring Report of MDM of 12-26 District-1 – SriGanganagar 6. 4th Half Yearly Monitoring Report of MDM of 27-41 District-2 – Alwar Annexure List of Abbreviations 42 List of Schools - SriGanganagar district 43 List of Schools - Alwar district 44 List of Schools showing gap in data 45-46 Letter of Commisionerate, MDM Rajasthan on draft report CDECS/MI/4HLY Report/SGN&Alwar Page4 4th HALF YEARLY MONITORING REPORT OF CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION AND STUDIES (CDECS) ON MID- DAY MEAL (MDM) FOR THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN FOR THE PERIOD OF 1st APRIL, 2012 TO 30th SEPTEMBER, 2012 1. General Information S. Information Details Number 1st APRIL, 2012 TO 30 th SEPTEMBER, 2012 1. Period of the report 2. Number of Districts allotted 02 3. Districts’ name SriGanganagar & Alwar Month of visit to the Districts / District-1(SriGanganagar )- 15th August, Schools 2012 to 19 September, 2012 4. (Information is to be given district- District-2(Alwar)- 15th August, 2012 to 19 wise September, 2012 i.e. District 1, District 2, etc.) Total number of elementary schools District-1 SriGanganagar –PS-1154 and (primary and upper primary to be UPS-759 5. counted separately) in the Districts District-2 Alwar - PS 1707 and UPS-1247 covered by MI Number of elementary schools District- SriGanganagar - PS -09; UPS-23, monitored (primary and upper KGBV-02, STCs-06 primary to be counted separately) 6. District- Alwar - PS -16; UPS-18, KGBV- Information is to be given district- 04, STCs-02 wise i.e. District 1, District 2, District 3 etc) 7. Types of schools visited District-1(SriGanganagar)- 06 a) Special training centres (STC) District-2(Alwar) – 02 CDECS/MI/4HLY Report/SGN&Alwar Page5 District-1(SriGanganagar)- 10 c) Schools in Urban Areas District-2(Alwar) - 09 District-1(SriGanganagar)- 06 d) Schools sanctioned with Civil Works District-2(Alwar) -06 District-1(SriGanganagar)- 03 e) Schools from NPEGEL Blocks District-2(Alwar) -03 District-1(SriGanganagar)- 07 f) Schools having CWSN District-2(Alwar) - 05 Schools covered under CAL District-1(SriGanganagar)- 10 g) programme District-2 (Alwar) - 06 District-1(SriGanganagar)- 02 h) KGBVs District-2 (Alwar) - 04 Number of schools visited by Nodal District-1(SriGanganagar)- 14 8. Officer of the Monitoring Institute District-2 (Alwar) – 12 Whether the draft report has been Yes 9. shared with the SPO : YES / NO After submission of the draft report Yes to the SPO whether the MI has 10. received any comments from the SPO: YES / NO Before sending the reports to the Yes 11. GOI whether the MI has shared the report with SPO: YES / NO Before taking up the field level study we had discussions with State Officials, namely SPD & Commissioner, Deputy Director (Monitoring). The State team Details regarding discussion held helped us by intimating the district about 12. with State officials the monitoring and visit date. They also instructed the district for necessary support as per the GOI letter and requirement. CDECS/MI/4HLY Report/SGN&Alwar Page6 The selection of sample schools was done as per the TOR of Ministry of HRD. In total, 40 Schools of various categories have been selected. The purposive sampling technique and stratified sampling technique have been used. Thus, through random sampling 13. Selection Criteria for Schools technique the sample schools have been selected. The district and Block officials were also involved. The Schools visited under MDM were the same which were the sample of SSA. In case of MDM, the schools were the sample schools where MDM was operational. Items to be attached with the 14. report: A. List of Schools with DISE Yes code visited by MI. (still some schools do not know their DISE code it is filled at Block level) B. Copy of Office order, Yes notification etc. discussed in the report. C. District Summary of the Yes school reports D. Any other relevant documents. Yes CDECS/MI/4HLY Report/SGN&Alwar Page7 Consolidated Report of Mid Day Meal for the districts of SriGanganagar & Alwar in Rajasthan for the period of 1st APRIL, 2012 to 30 th SEPTEMBER, 2012 District 1: (a) Regularity in serving MDM: Out of 32 sample schools (SriGanganagar) visited by MI for MDM, in all the 32 sample schools (100%) hot cooked meal was served daily.